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We believe God intended parents to be the primary disciplers in a child’s moral, spiritual, and intellectual development. Our role is to support you in that calling. Duet. 6:5-7.

With this in mind, parents who wish to enrol their children in a DL program have many wonderful and important responsibilities. You are schooling at home and will generally be responsible to supervise your children’s daily activities and to work alongside the teacher to implement a quality learning program.

Therefore, this will require of the parents to:

1. Choose the correct type of schooling at home that is right for you. Our page on Admissions Policies and Home Learning Options may be helpful to you.
2. To collaborate with our Curriculum consultant (Mrs. Brenda Fawkes) and your assigned teacher to develop a Student Learning Plan (course outlines) for each core and non-core subjects.
3. To request from RCOA purchase orders ( PO’s) and other means of obtaining your required curriculum and services. (See Curriculum and Program Activities Budget).
4. Support and assist with the collection and documentation of academic achievement throughout the year through the gathering of tests, work samples and marks. This is to culminate by the creation and compiling of three Portfolios per school year.
5. Communicate academic progress weekly to your child’s teacher. This could be through emails, phone calls, face-to-face visits, Encom use, online assignments, and Resource Centre classes.
6. To reflect positively and collaboratively with the teacher(s) from RCOA on progress academically.
7. Accept responsibility for the safety procedures that should be followed in the event of the fire or earthquake.
8. Assume responsibility if equipment has been borrowed from the school (computers, microscopes, etc.) for safety and the security of such.
9. To provide the school with all requested documentation for residency, place of birth, medical information, etc. that the Ministry expects us to keep on file.
10. Create and keep a consistent, daily routine for academic success. You have some flexibility on “breaks”, but from Grades 1-12, your children are expected to be in school for 600 hours for the school year.
11. Be just as diligent with online courses. Your children must know about and be kept to a time frame so that the course will be properly and completely finished. Courses should not be carried into the summer. Parents are often asked to monitor tests and be supportive with assignments.
12. A special request. Please pray for RCOA and your child’s teacher in particular. However competent the parents or the teacher may be, we all need the help and blessing of the Holy Spirit. What we are all truly interested in is combining the knowledge and skills learned with character development to help produce young people that will make a difference in this world, and to operate with wisdom and be able to display the grace and the love of God to their generation. Our teachers and staff will be praying for you.